I got no job experience

[happy gilmore]

I got no job experience. I never like working at a fastfood restaurant and other laborous jobs with low pay. I just want to work at an office and get pay a lot.

I just transferred to a University after 3 years in Community College, currently majoring in Accounting. During those 3 years in CC, my gpa was 2.8 including all the useless classes I took(weight lifting, ping pong). Not including them, its like a 2.4. I was told that now I am transferred, my gpa starts off fresh. So if I get straight A's right now, I will have a 4.0. I am ready to work hard, but I would like to know if I have to write down my past gpa from cc on my resume in the future. And will they not likely to hire me because I have no job experience whatsoever?

Would adding another major like finance increase my chance of getting hire and getting pay more money? I want to study finance because I want to learn how to invest my money and get rich.

 

[I'm Joe Dirt]

You gotta start low.

Job experience is valuable, and it is required for anything that pays good. You won't just graduate out of academic world and immediatley get placed into a $100k a year job or something.

Now if you have degrees, it will be a faster path for you than for someone without that degree, but you will have to spend a few years in the trenches doing some low level, not so high paying job. Hell, you might even find that its enjoyable too.

Don't be afraid of work. Lower your standards. You are not above anyone just because you live in a shielded reality away from work. Get a job at some retail store in sales, for example. Those are fun, you learn a lot, and its good experience because you deal with people.

You can learn all the theory you want, but without experience its not worth much in reality nor to a prospective employer.

Its just like the difference between DJs and Keyboard Jockies. The guys who go out to the field are infinitley better at this stuff than the guys who sit around being KBJs, even if the KBJ has read far more material and knows far more theory than the DJ. Experience counts, get some!

Experience also makes jobs easier. I see some people who have no experience get hired at a place like Geek Squad, which is a high-stress envoirnment where you have to multitask and deal with angry people and all that, and they do very poorly. People who are new that come from sales jobs or other technical jobs handle it beautifuly and assimilate quickly, those who have no experience generally fizzle out or get too stressed out and quit.

So Experience is not only required to be a good employee, but some low level experience is also necessary for you to transition to higher things and be ready for higher challenges. You don't want to be dropped in the middle of a combat zone without learning how to fire a gun first.

 

[GirlCrazy]

I am here to tell you that it's all attitude, just like everything else in life.

With the right attitude, you will go far - period. With the wrong attitude, you'll be getting laid off after 20 years at a dead-end job, asking yourself what went wrong. I've seen both sides many many times.

If you want something bad enough, there's absolutely nothing that can stop you from achieving it. Your only obstacle has always been and will always be yourself.

 

[tristan22]

Depending on where you live, the only way to get a decent job or an interview for that matter is.

A. Internship and then getting hired on after you graduate.

B. Know someone who can get you a job.

C. Be a minority.


Otherwise, it's going to be tough--the market is flooded with college graduates.

 

[Joe The Homophobe]

Originally posted by tristan22
Depending on where you live, the only way to get a decent job or an interview for that matter is.

A. Internship and then getting hired on after you graduate.

B. Know someone who can get you a job.

C. Be a minority.


Otherwise, it's going to be tough--the market is flooded with college graduates.

tell me about it, I was unemployed for almost a year! I applied to countless places. The only way I managed to get a job was due to knowing someone working there.

 

[I'm Joe Dirt]

Which shows you how important experience is.

What seperates you from the thousands of other college graduates? What do you have to offer?

Its just like in pick up, you have to demonstrate a higher value, and experience does that for the job marketplace.